Title: Natural killer (NK) and lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) activities in a patient who recovered from cancer, and the characteristics of LAK cells generated from CD4−CD8− and CD8+ peripheral blood lymphocytes
Abstract: The natural killer (NK) and lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) activities of a patient who recovered from bladder transitional cell carcinoma were determined. The patient was diagnosed in 1980 and repeated several therapies until 1986. Since 1987, he has been in a tumor-free state. Recently, very high NK and LAK activities were found. The NH activity was recognized not only against the NK-sensitive cell line K562, but also against NK-unsensitive Raji and Daudi cell lines and against autotumor cell line H41. The percentage of CD16+ in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) was 52.9%, the CD8+CD16+ was 26.3%, and the CD4−CD8−CD16+ was 26.6% (17.5, 5.4 and 12.1% in healthy blood donor (control), respectively). Because the patient had large numbers of CD4−CD8− cells in the PBL, CD4−CD8- LAK were generated from them. The CD4−CD8− LAK cells exhibited extremely high killer activity, whereas the CD8+ LAK cells generated from the CD8+ cells showed a low level of killer activity. These results suggest that the tumor-free condition of this patient may be related to these high killer activities. In this patient, several cytokines were also determined, although the results were not completely interpreted.
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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